What Makes People Think They Are Qualified To Teach Their Own Kids?

[WinniSkipper]

227. That's sort of making my point - but through another door

You are going on the pretext that what they have learned, and continued to learn, throughout their careers, even has the ability to be applied now. That's where I disagree. The 1 teacher-to-20 students model is ideal and had served us well. And it was designed in an environment that does not exist today. Where in reality - the teachers word was law. That was a good thing for the most part. It taught us hierarchy in the learning process. I think today, the learning process is much more horizontal.

Kids also today take in more extraneous information (and retain it) from outside of class than I ever did for my classes alone. If we accept that as true - we have to also consider that I could have packed twice as much info into my head and finished high school in 8th grade. I don't think our system underestimated our capabilities so much. Yet most of todays teachers are trained with my style of student in mind. And how can teachers train and keep up on an environment that is being written as we go?

I don't think teachers get (or ever will again get) the chance to implement their skills they way they should be. How does this relate to qualifications? If anything, today's homeschool parents have resources available, and probably design a lot of their curriculum, communally. Just like we here at DU3 are communally sharing our experiences and debating, many of the kids in HS programs are actually on the forefront of how education, or at least certain segments of it, will be in the future.